Monday, 9 November 2015

People Who Bring You Down, When You’re Trying to Achieve Something

I’m starting to think this blog should have
been called The Types of People I Hate.

So there are these horrible parasitic types
that drag you down when you’re up. I’m sure this has happened to all of us
although maybe everyone else hasn’t always been surrounded by the miserable
negative people I have.

These are the (as Kevin Smith would say)
why people, the people who always as why or always see the worst in everything,
the every cloud has a shit stained lining people. The type of person who you’d
tell you won the £10mil jackpot on the lottery and they’d say why couldn’t it
have been the £72mil Euro. Try to surround
yourselves with why not people as Kevin Smith would say, and you know what
he’s right. For most of my life I was a why person and all I can say is thank
fuck I’m not anymore.

These people are generally negative in
every aspect of there life and that’s fine because I once read that “their (negative people) life is their
punishment” which I truly believe. The most negative people I’ve ever met are
some of the biggest underachievers on the planet. People with potential which
they never full reached and as a consequents are living lives that were chosen
for them rather than lives that they chose themselves. This is one of the
saddest things that can happen to a human, but I believe we choose our own
paths. These people believe that they are powerless when negative thing have happened
to them, I say the way you react to the bad stuff that happens to you defines
you.

Don’t get caught in the trap of negative
thinking, it’s a vicious cycle that is hard to get out of.

Again going back to Kevin Smith but in his
book Tough Shit (which is in my top
10 books ever, especially for motivation and positivity. Oh and dick jokes,
that guy loves dick jokes) he say if you want to do something good encourage an
artist. This is a top tip, I love this, because there are too many negative
people in the world telling you that you can’t do something or you can’t achieve
something. One that’s been thrown at me quite a lot in my life has been: “But how many people who try that actually
make money doing it?” or one of the million variations that this comes in.
How defeatist is that? I was listening to an old Joe Rogan Experience podcast
the other day where he had Magnus Walker on. If you don’t know who Magnus is,
he is an ex-fashion designer, ex-film locationer (not the technical term, I just
mean he rented out property he owned to film companies) and now spends all his
time making custom Porsches as a hobby. Any way his story goes like this: he
was born in Sheffield, England and never knew what he wanted to do so after
sitting on the dole for a while he went to America and the rests history. Anyway
on the podcast he said how in England (especially outside London) you are told
to stay in your box, to not strive to be anything other than what you are
expected to be and to “live within your
means”. This is certainly true for me growing up in middle England, hell I’m
the first in my immediate family to go to university and get a degree, just let
that sink in a minute the first member of my family finished university in
2015. Why go to university when you can work in a shop? Or be a builder? No
thank you.

So fuck people who try to bring you down.
At the end of the day no one knows what’s best in life, which is certainly true
for everyone I’ve ever met. Most people I know have no idea what they’re doing
at 45 so who the fuck are they to judge anyone. And as my man Magnus would say “go
with your gut feeling” as you know what’s best for you.